America's Successful Men of Affairs. An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography
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, Mary H. , Robert A., Harry E., Catherine, Malvina and Gertrude, the latter three dying in THE UNITED STATES AT LARGE. PA. 605 infancy. Mr Packet continued to follow the trade of a carpenter and meanwhile aided his father-in-law in the management of a farm. In 1833, when the Lehigh Canal began operations, Mr. Packer leased the farm, removed to Mauch Chunk, and built a canal boat, which he operated in the coal trade to Philadelphia. This was the initial step in a field in which he was destined ...to become a famous man. Later, he established himself in Mauch Chunk as a boat builder. About 1836, with his brother Robert W. Packer, he opened a store in Mauch Chunk under the name of A. & R. W. Packer, and not only did they carry on a general trade, but built a number of locks and dams under contract, and finally leased and operated a number of anthracite coal mines in the Lehigh region. The firm soon bought the celebrated Hazelton mine and thereafter entered upon a period of marked prosperity.
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